Please, please remember not to automatically accept as fact anything you read on the internet. The is so much misinformation, disinformation and flat out tinfoil flying around out there you need to be alert to and not accept without critical evaluation and verification. I’ve tracked sooooo much bs on the internet this week that people need to return to principle one - don’t believe everything you read on the internet
Wuhan Virus -
A WHO team has arrived in China to investigate the origin of the wuhan virus. They are under a 14 day quarantine before they can get to work. Just as the WHO team arrived, China announced it is locking down more than 22 million in their homes. Among the locales on lockdown were cities Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, and Langfang, along with counties in the Heilongjiang province and districts in the capital city of Beijing, The New York Times reported. Notably, per the report, the massive lockdowns – twice as large as the initial ones at the beginning of the Chinese outbreak – come as the country reported a mere average of 109 new cases a day in a country of 1.4 billion people.
Johnson & Johnson is on track to roll out its single-shot coronavirus vaccine in March, and expects to have clear data on how effective it is by the end of this month or early February, the U.S. healthcare company’s chief scientific officer, Dr. Paul Stoffels , said. BTW Stoffels is a World Economic Forum (WEF) attendee, the organization responsible for the ‘great reset’ doctrine.
Economy -
New weekly unemployment claims spiked far more than expected last week to reach a five-month high, as the coronavirus pandemic and stay-in-place orders weighed heavily on the labor market. Initial jobless claims, for the week ending Jan. 9: 965,000 vs. 789,000 expected and a revised 784,000 during the prior week, this is the highest level since August 2020. More than 18 million Americans were still claiming unemployment benefits of some form, including about 11.6 million individuals on pandemic-era federal unemployment programs.
Schumer has pledged to quickly pass funding for the additional $1400 checks for wuhan stimulus. However, even with control of the senate there is a question if the votes are there. One instance, Sen Manchin has said he would absolutely oppose the additional money. Biden is proposing a $2 trillion package versus Schumer’s $1.3 trillion.
2020 Election-
After a very stream lined process that provided no due process, House officially has the votes to impeach Trump for the second time. 10 Republicans vote yes:
John Katko (NY)
Liz Cheney (WY)
Adam Kinzinger (IL)
Fred Upton (MI)
Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA)
Dan Newhouse (WA)
Peter Meijer (MI)
Tom Rice (SC)
Anthony Gonzalez (OH)
David Valadao (CA)
CW2/Domestic violence -
FBI violence report continues to focus leftist fears. Many on the right are warning followers to avoid religiously any protests ANYWHERE on Jan 20 - building to be a potential HUGE red flag event. Take a deep breath, keep your powder dry.
According to a National Guard spokesperson, the Pentagon approved National Guard troops deploying to Washington, D.C. to augment security at the Capitol to be armed with lethal weapons. Chief of the National Guard Bureau, General Daniel Hokason, said, “We want our individuals to have the right to self-defense. If senior leadership determines that that’s the right posture to be in, then that is something we will do.”
CYBER FRONT -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey issued a statement Wednesday addressing the social media giant’s decision to ban President Donald Trump from the platform for life. “If folks do not agree with our rules and enforcement, they can simply go to another internet service.” He went on to deny that the actions against Parler were coordinated but it is evident otherwise, particularly with other server providers following suit with Amazon.
This week, Facebook and Twitter collectively lost $51.2 billion in market value, Business Insider reported. Facebook’s stock market value dropped $47.6 billion while Twitter’s value dropped by $3.5 billion. Both Facebook and Twitter lost value on Monday and Tuesday, while Twitter regained some of its value on Wednesday with Facebook wavering at its previous closing level.
LiquidWeb has removed Oath Keepers from their servers. OK reports they are working to rebuild its site at a new server location.
From VA Citizens Defense League - ”Yesterday, Mailchimp suspended VCDL’s VA-ALERT account claiming possible policy violation, but with no explanation of what policy was possibly violated and no warning. “
Gab managed to rescue and post on its site the entirety of President Trump’s tweets - much to the chagrin of the leftists.
CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) says she is proud to join a growing list of conservatives who have been banned or shunned by college campuses. On Tuesday, the Harvard Kennedy School informed the conservative lawmaker that they have decided to boot her from the school’s Senior Advisory Committee for what they referred to as her baseless claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
POLITICAL FRONT -
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the House Freedom Caucus chair and Judiciary Committee ranking member, called Wednesday for House Republicans to hold a vote to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as the House Republican Conference chair. This after Cheney lead 9 other republican congress critters to vote for impeachment today.
McConnell has rejected an emergency session to address the impeachment 2.0 of the president. Any ‘trial’ would have to occur during Biden’s term and would be unconstitutional as there is no legitimate authority to remove from office a citizen.
Former Fourth Circuit Judge Michael Luttig argues in a Washington Post column that a Senate trial would be unconstitutional. Luttig argues: “Once Trump’s term ends on Jan. 20, Congress loses its constitutional authority to continue impeachment proceedings against him—even if the House has already approved articles of impeachment.” The Constitution’s impeachment clauses presuppose that impeachment and removal of a president happen while in office.
As an example, Judge Luttig cites Article II, Section 4: “The president, vice president and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
He also cites Article I, Section 3, which reads in part: “Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.”
Newly elected Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced on Wednesday that she would be filing articles of impeachment against President-elect Joe Biden on the first full day of his presidency. “I would like to announce on behalf of the American people, we have to make sure that our leaders are held accountable. We cannot have a president of the United States that is willing to abuse the power of the office of the presidency and be easily bought off by foreign governments, foreign Chinese energy companies, Ukrainian energy companies,” said Greene.
Strategic Developments /Deployments -
Nimitz CSG still operating in the Arabian Sea region.
North Korea -
The Workers Party Congress in North Korea produced a surprise this week, Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, received what amounted to a demotion. Having previously been seen as a rising force in the family, she was not even named to the Politburo. Meanwhile, Kim was elevated from chairman to general secretary, a rank previously held by his late father and grandfather.
Iran -
Iran has started work on uranium metal-based fuel for a research reactor, the U.N. nuclear watchdog and Tehran said on Wednesday, in the latest breach of its nuclear deal with six major powers as the country presses for a lifting of U.S. sanctions. Iranian leadership has also said they have nothing to gain by going back to the nuclear agreement that Biden is pushing for and will continue on its own program no matter what.
Iran’s naval forces on Wednesday launched a major military drill in the country’s southern waters. The two-day missile exercise in the Gulf of Oman, code-named Eqtedar-99 (power), was attended by top military officials, including the chief of army staff, Gen. Hossein Baqeri.
MY OBSERVATIONS - Huge SIGNINT boon for our military. We’ve had a lot of platforms monitoring Iran lately and their arrogant exercise allow us a big advantage into understanding their operations and precursor signals/coms.
Took yesterday off, needed to decompress.
Wuhan Virus -
The faster spreading UK wuhan variant has been detected in Oregon. CDC is expressing concern that this variant known as B.1.1.7 could become the dominant strain in the US by March, like it has in the UK. This more contagious strain will be used to further justify increasing lockdowns/shutdowns of the economy and civil rights int the coming months. And speaking of rights, Michigan’s Governor has extended her state’s lock down for an even longer period.
Chicago’s mayor has reversed herself, now calling to reopen bars and restaurants to prevent the spread of wuhan - wait what?
Economy -
The Internal Revenue Service will delay the start of tax filing season until Feb. 12, 2021, which pushes the date when the tax agency will begin accepting and processing 2020 tax year returns.
On Friday, the agency said the start date for individual tax return filers will allow the IRS time to do additional programming and testing following the Dec. 27 tax law changes, which provided a second round of COVID-19 stimulus relief checks and other benefits. April 15 remains the deadline for filing 2020 tax returns.
2020 Election-
President Trump will be enroute to Florida when Biden is installed as emperor.
CW2/Domestic violence -
Echoing the continued warnings not to support this march on DC and other statehouses on the 20th. Evidence it this is a false flag attempt to trigger 2A crackdowns in addition to the ongoing attacks against Trump supporters. Keep your powder dry for now.
NG deployments to DC now exceed 25,000 (approaching 30K). To put this in perspective, in Afghanistan and Iraq combined we only have about 7,000 troops.
Speaking of Iraq, the Secret Service has declared a “Green Zone” in downtown DC, with vehicular traffic restricted to residents.
After claiming otherwise, the DOJ is now saying that there is no evidence that those who entered the capitol had the intent to capture and assassinate representatives. More media however continues to paint the capture and kill narrative. The narrative continues to be the instigators were Trump supporters, though multiple arrests of leftists have been arrested and in at least one case (John Sullivan) on line postings called for the burning down of the capitol and deliberate mayhem. Plus, CNN teamed up with him to penetrated the capitol, video shows other provocateurs with him. BTW, Sullivan was released without bail. In comparison, “bison boy” is being held without bond. Sullivan is the founder of a left-wing rioting group called Insurgence USA which goes around instigating riots with Antifa thugs.
Ken Cuccinelli, the acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary, said he and FBI Director Christopher Wray briefed more than 5,900 state and local officials earlier this week about “a good deal of online chatter” that has prompted increased security around the country. DHS/FBI did say there’s no specific, credible threats at this point in time.
CYBER/CANCEL CULTURE FRONT -
American Thinker has been forced to close its comments sections. Its internet service provider demanded that or near instantaneous monitoring/censoring of comments deemed “violent” etc.
Project Veritas posted a secretly recorded video of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talking about his censorship plans beyond President Donald Trump. Pretty damning video, but not surprising considering the coordinated Big Tech assault on conservatives.
No word on Parler’s attempt to reconstruct on a conservative friendly server site.
Mailchimp is now banning conservative sites and removing them from their email services. The first of these is the Montana Daily Gazette.
Bloomburg is apparently teaming up with Big Tech to target Pro- 2A websites and influencers. The initial efforts were evident when the AR15 website was pulled by GoDaddy (company owned by Amazon).
Word is circulating that Apple is planning to remotely axe the Telegram app from users’ iPhones now that President Donald Trump and millions of free speech advocates have migrated there. Telegraph notified its users on Tuesday that the app surpassed 500 million monthly active users during the first week of January, with 25 million new users joining just in the previous 72 hours alone. Earlier, Apple removed the Parler app from its store as part of a combined effort with google and amazon to shut that site down permanently.
POLITICAL FRONT -
Senate released transcripts of the FISA abuses/lies that were the foundation for the Mueller investigation. This on top of other documents declassified by the president over the past couple days. The release covered over by the media of course.
Pelosi has delayed forwarding the bill of impeachment to the senate. Part of her ‘reason’ is that they are pulling together the ‘evidence’ of the criminal act. Typical cart-before-the-horse. However, this delay virtually insures that it will not be acted upon by the Senate before the 20th. This sets up what is a clear unconstitutional attempt for the Senate to impeach the ‘civilian’ Trump. Even leftist attorneys Dershowitz and Turley note this is unconstitutional. It is a unashamedly an attempt to prevent Trump from running again in 2024 and a vicious assault on him and supporters. This has the effect of throwing Biden’s 100 day agenda under the bus by taking the legislative focus off that an onto a continuation of the political coup.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D -W.Va.) said in an interview this week that he believes the Senate should consider removing GOP Sens. Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Ted Cruz (Texas), arguing the Republicans were complicit in insurrection when they objected to certifying some Electoral College votes the same day a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol in protest of the election results. This is just another voice from the left demanding the removal of republicans from congress.
NOTE - watch closely since if campaign this gains traction, serious violence would be expected and it would stimulate the drive for the affected state(s) to succeed from the union.
Pelosi has threatened representatives with a $10,000 fine for failing to go through recently installed metal detectors. Other democrats are also wetting their pants with fear that republican representatives are going to kill them. Anti 2A hysteria wave coming next.
North Korea -
NK showed off a new missile believed to be a submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in a parade yesterday.
MY OBSERVATIONS - Like it’s monstrous cousin, the MIRV ICBM displayed in last October’s parade this missile is more for show than go. Prior to the Trump initiatives with NK, they had been trying to successfully execute a sea launch of a missile (smaller version) without success. NK is also constructing / retrofitting submarines for SLBMs, but expect a considerable number of technical problems to work out before operational deployment. Kim made a big deal at the recent party conference about expanding NK’s military efforts in the strategic realm and this ‘missile’ reveal likely is part of that propaganda. Timing with the incoming biden administration cannot be missed. The unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North’s growing military prowess.
Israel -
When biden assumes power, Israel is expecting a vacuum in US power to keep Iran in check, so Israeli news sources are reporting that the IDF is in the process of developing courses of action to take out the Iranian nuclear program on their own. This effort has gained new urgency given the Iranian move to start processing uranium to 20% purity, once that is obtained nuclear experts estimated that it could only take but a few months to jump to the 90%/weapons grade level.
Iran has sent several Shahed-136 loitering munitions, known as “suicide drones,” to its proxies in Yemen, Newsweek reported on Thursday. It has been noted that Israel has enhanced its anti aircraft missile system deployment in the southern part of the country as a counter measure.